[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[Chris]

On 09/19/16 23:32, Dirk Munk wrote:

> That is the usual approach for these things, never do something new if
> you can avoid it.
>
> Or you can use the Facebook approach. They were fed up with dual stacks,
> brain dead programmers who only built in the IPv4 stack in their
> applications, and so on. So they went for IPv6 only on all systems,
> except for the ones facing the internet of course.
>
> Instead of fleeing backwards, they fled forward. A better approach in my
> view, because in the end you will have to convert anyway.
>

Agreed, it makes sense for an organisation with that many nodes and 
volume of traffic. When the change does come, the internal IPV6
should be well proven, with all the bugs and systems management
familiarity well understood. It's not a no cost change for
system admin though.

Still see no point for smaller subnets, where a IPV4 to IPV6
translation is more cost effectively handled globally...

Regards,

Chris